The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-03-10

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Cedar Key Gulf Vsew Cedar pencil wood in
large quantities have been arriving from Gulf
Hammock via the r. R. d N. railroad. The
Sunday cedar trains seems 70 be an established
institution. Last Monday was made the first
shipment Of turtle from Cedar Key, this season.
VIM McCrcary was the energetic catcher, and
Mr.. Walter Dopson the early shipper. This u
one Of the big interests of this place, and Mr..
Dopson, no doubt, intends to make things lively
in that line during the season.
-Ocala FIRES Press No damage by the frost
OF Monday night 10 reported. Il was very light
in This section. One Of the largest cases ever
earned before q court 10 now In progress. The
claims and testimony were forwarded to New
York Yesterday. II involves the title of the
town OF Santos, seven mile3 below Ocala, and the
parties interested are the r. X. q N. and Mr..
Cole, one Of the first settlers who made his home
there under an act Of the government permitting
squatters q claim. MessrA Miller & Spencer are
the attorneys.
-Apalachicola TINES The good people of
Carabelle are just now jubilant over the early
completion OF the long talked of Thomasville,
Tallahassee and Gulf road. The Times hopes TO
soon 10 see the iron horse entering the embryo
city soon. Monday last an eight foot alligator
was killed in Coombs & Co.'S log boom. He
was assaulted with pike poles and axes, and mo-
ally Gu: open. The remains of several geese
were found in the saurin's stomach. This will
account for the disappearance OF many OF our
feaihered bipeds. Col w. A. Hooker is one
OF the ablest attorneys in the State. tie ID
highly endorsed for the judgeship and his friends
are OF the opinion that he will receive the APP
pointment
Marianne Enquirer Our country produces,
ship more poultry and eggs, than at any other
point on the p. & A r R, and the production
Is steadily increasing. The a.. ention given this
irdusIry has proven that We have climate and
country peculiarly fitted 10 the successful raising
Of poultry. There is 70 businC g which pays a
larger div nd for amount expended than this.
80. If the increase OF the products OF tre soil IN
this county, is 10 be cs mated by the Ia. &c sale
of guanO from pi sent indications tie crop for
the present year, will be at least fifty per cent.
greater than last. Those who handle or sell
Commercial Fertilizers, inform US their sales
are greatly in excess OF last year-at least twenty
per cent. 10 the present time, and but little re-
Taxation in the demand.
-Palafka Herald. The Putnam House is
OYeI lowing with guests, there being on an av-
erage of lJ0 arrivals daily. The water works
in this city will soon be ready. The pipes are
already laid and the tank on the heights and
down at the lower end of Whitewater branch
will be ready 10 supply the city by the end OF
this week If this work can be accomplished so
soon il will be a great convenience to the peo-
pie. for many are now out OF water. .. Tom NC
Ini0sh, the best performer in Hicks & Sawyers
Minstrel Show, was released Friday on $500
bond, Messrs Vinegar and Mescereau going on
his bond The troupe, We learn, has gone 10
pieces but such a performer as Mcintosh will
never lack for q good position anywhere, in any
company. He has travelled over Europe and
America, and Is well known.
Quincy Herald. Collector Morgan has
small list of delinquent taxpayers in our paper
to-day. The smalness of the list shows that our
citizens have been very promp; in paying their
taxes for last year, Notwithstanding the fact that
the crops were cut off by the storm last June
- Uncle Tom Nsthans' eighty -second birth
day viii soon be here, and weare sure his friends
will not forget him on that occasion On that
day he intends TO beat his record from his resi-
dence 10 bis store, ninety feet more than half
mile. A letter was received from wholesale
tobacco house, in Baltimore, by the firm OF Wm
Munroe, asking the number of acres that would
be planted in tobacco In this county, and re-
Quesiing samples of a few crops still on hand
Said that he would be here early in the fall to
buy all the tobacco he cLn get
Lake City Tobacco Plant The Tobacco
Pant is doing more for Lake City, Columbia
county, this portion of Florida young as it is,
than any other publication ever issued in this
section. We are sending abroad many extra
copies, which are being literally quoted from all
over the coLntry, and in this way are doing
more solid advertising for it than any real estate
agent il ever had, and without the same hope OF
reward Proof of this can be had at our office
We trust the people will apprf ciate it and sub
stanlially second our efforts in the common be-
half. :. Mayor L. Harrison received few days
since letter from large Philadelphia firm ask
ing for samples of the white sand" of this part
Of the Stale, and stating though the request
may seem absurd TO you, yet compliance with
il may lead 10 the establishing OF large manu-
featuring interest in your midst" The sand was
forwarded at the enteTprlsing Mayors expense,
and a Ulaoe farf0rv ie npYt in order
-Sumterville Times. Col III. r. Duval and
party went down 10 Chalo Apopka Canal on
Wednesday 10 examine into tn Il piece of work.
We have no doubt they will report favorably
upon il. Col Jno. Elaison, who has in charge
Doctor Hawkins fine hammock place on the
WilhlacOOcheeriver, is shipping cabbage to Talla-
hassee al a net profit of $250 per barrel. Col.
J. A Stewart, who is in charge of laying tract
ON the Tampa extension, informs us that he will
be At Dade City this week. He also informs us
that the road will reach Plant City by the mid
die Of April, If not sooner. Lea SimOnton,
wife OF Jerry Simonton, of Levy county, gave
birth, on the 10Th inst, to child, which lie prob
ably the greatest living curiosity. The child
has no eyes, and scarcely a resemblance OF an
ear; its fingers are about four inches long. and
not larger than broomstraw legs and arms not
larger Than small finger. The child was liv
ing at last accounts, and doing we'll.
Seville Independent. Webb, the Jay Gould
Of Volusia county journalism, has sold out his
DeLeOn bonanza and is devoting his entire time
10 the new Chronicle, of DeLand. which he and
his talented partner are making one of the spi-
ciest and ablest Of county papers a half dozen
wild-eyed tramps struck Seville one night this
week, and were proceeding to scatter themselves
about among the residences of the people when
they were discovered by some Of "the boys 4"
who promptly organized tramp battue which
proved so effective that in twenty minutes not q
Tramp could be found within mile of town..
Col ID. H Elliott, SO long connected with the
Savannah, Florida & Western Railway as agent
of their FLORIDA Dispatch Line" and the foun
der OF that well-known and excellent Journal
the Florida DHpdtch, has been appointed Gen
eral Freight and Passenger Agent OF the De
Barry Baya Merchants Line. No man has per-
formed more solid, hard, honest labor in the in
terest OF Florida travel and traffic during the
past ten years Than Col Elliott. and his new po
sitiOn will enable him TO continue the work he
loves and does 90 well.
-Rustis Lake Region We have 1t on good
authority that the town of Fl Mason is to be
plated, streets laid out and town lots offered TO
The public at nominal figures. The Golden
dramatic company have made dates for Eustis
for the 14ih and 18th inst. This is probably the
best dramatic troupe that Is doing our State this
season. There former visit here is sufficient
advertisement to insure them full house on
their return. There are q great many depots,
and deppos, and daypos in this country, but after
all people are Just as well pleased when they ar
rive af the station. Work on the extension OF
the White railroad from Daytona TO New Smyrna
has begun. The line has been surveyed through
70 New Smyrna, and force Of handsare at work
cutting cut the right way between Daytona and
Por Orange. The work of grading will soon
be done IL "a also reported that In the near flu